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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - George IV
Events[]
- 13 January - Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.[1]
- 23 January – In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).[2]
- February
- John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
- Mercy Whitney describes the burial, in Hawaii, of the infant son of Isaac and Elizabeth Peke Davis: "A regular procession of two and two followed the corpse. Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."[3]
- 4 March - Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.[4]
- 26 March – The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
- Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.
- 23 August – A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
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- The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).[5]
- The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a "Confession of Faith" and becomes a separate body.[6]
- The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.[7]
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Felicia Hemans – The Siege of Valencia[8]
- – Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)[9]
- – Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)
Music[]
- David Charles – Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)[10]
- John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune)
Births[]
- 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)[11]
- 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
- March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)[12]
- 19 April – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)[13]
- 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)
- December – , radical and champion of women's rights (d. 1908)
Deaths[]
- 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
- 11 November – Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71[14]
- 28 November – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79[15]
- 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
- 4 December – (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20[16]
References[]
- ^ "Asiatic Intelligence". The Oriental Magazine, and Calcutta Review. W. Thacker: 269. 1823.
- ^ Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ^ Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History By Peter R. Mills. Page 141
- ^ "Richards, John". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Brinley Rees. "Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Smith, Gary (2019). The Oxford handbook of Presbyterianism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780190608392.
- ^ Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences. H.M. Stationery Office. 1980. p. 26.
- ^ Gwyn Jones. "Hemans (nee Browne), Felicia (1793-1835), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Charles, David 1 (1762-1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Richard Elwyn Hughes. "Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913), naturalist and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ ichard Griffith Owen. "Williams, Rowland (Hwfa Môn, 1823-1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Scott, Rosemary (2004). "Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Richards family of Coed". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Bertie George Charles. "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ William Joseph Rhys. "Harris, John Ryland (Ieuan Ddu, 1802-1823), printer and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
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